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🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted:
Hélène Huby (EU, 2021): Co-Founder & CEO at The Exploration Company.
Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 33.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 551 Days.
Description: The Exploration Company develops, manufactures and operates modular and reusable spaceships serving the needs of space stations.
Prev. Experience: Board Member @ ClearSpace SA, Founder & Chairman @ Urania Ventures, VP Orion-ESM @ Airbus Defence and SpaceAirbus, Program Director @ ArianeGroup, VP Germany & Program Director @ faberNovel, Head of European Affairs @ Ministère de l'Éducation nationale.
Total Funding: $40M / $87.3M Latest Series A Round in 02/2023.
Notable Investors: Wealth Management Alliance, RYMD Kapital, Partech Ventures, SistaFund, July Fund, Habert Dassault Finance, Red River West, Vsquared Ventures, Schlumberger Limited, Possible Ventures, Promus Ventures, EQT Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Omnes Capital.
👻 Opportunity:
Fraser Kelton (US, 2023): Founder at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 04.
Description: N/A.
Prev. Experience: Head of Product @ OpenAI, Product @ Airbnb, Co-Founder & CEO @ Koko, COO & BoD @ GetGlue.
Total Funding: N/A.
Notable Investors: N/A
🎱 Strategic Intelligence
Inspired by Michael Lewis’ Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Strategic Intelligence is a stealth engine that tracks online and social behaviour of corporate insiders and leading investors.
🪄 Predicted:
Elementus (US, 2018) - Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 10.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 712 Days.
Description: Elementus offers a analytics platform that brings cognition to the blockchain's native transparency.
Total Funding: $10M / $26.3M Latest Series A Round in 02/2023.
Notable Investors: Coalco, Spitfire Ventures, Pomp Investments, BlockFi, Velvet Sea Ventures, Gemini Frontier Fund, Morgan Creek Digital, Avon Ventures, Blockchain.com Ventures, Maven 11 Capital, Robot Ventures, Stage 1 Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Moonshots Capital, Alameda Research, Lightspeed Venture Partners.
👻 Opportunity:
Artifact (US, 2023) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 07.
Description: A personalised news feed driven by artificial intelligence.
Total Funding: N/A
Notable Investors: N/A
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 02/2023.
🍒 Cherry-Picked Companies
Specter tracks the alternative data performance of millions of companies and, on a monthly basis, flags the ones who are likely to increase in valuation.
🪄 Predicted:
MindsDB (US, 2017) - Specter Rank: 2,068 📈
Description: MindsDB utilizes machine learning so its users can ask predictive questions of their data and receive accurate answers from it.
Total Funding: $16.5M / $24.3M Latest Series A Round in 02/2023.
Notable Investors: Rogue Capital Collective, Tuck Lye Koh, SCM Advisors, Christopher Golda, OSS Capital L.P., Ben Orthlieb, Angel Invest, OpenOcean, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, Charlie Songhurst, MMC Ventures, Speedinvest, Benchmark.
3 Months Growth: Web: +296%; Team: +11%; Social: +25%.
👻 Opportunity:
Sourcery (EU, 2018) - Specter Rank: 926 📈
Description: Sourcery is an AI code assistant that helps in writing better code faster.
Total Funding: $1.8M / $1.9M Seed Round in 01/2022.
Notable Investors: CapitalX, Angel Invest, Charlotte Street Capital, Forward Partners, Runa Capital, Acequia Capital (AceCap), Techstars.
6 Months Growth: Web: +398%; Team: +17%; Social: +27%.
That’s all for this edition of Specter Monitor!
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